WD on TV: Pumpkin Pinata Video

Watch Rene Syler demonstrate how to make this fun party game

The ghosts and the vampires will soon be out. Woman's Day Magazine's Rene Syler is here with the perfect Halloween party idea, Pumpkin Piñata. Hello, Rene.

Hi. Good to see you again, Honey.

What have you got?

Yeah. So, this is what we're making, it's a Pumpkin Piñata. Let's see if we can get a good shot of this day.

Oh, this is good.

Look, there he is right there, look how awesome that is, but what's even better is what's on the inside.

How-- this looks difficult to make.

Not hard and I know last week you said you were crafty but I'm just gonna tell you anyone can do this.

Okay.

What we're gonna need is, we're gonna need tape.

Yeah.

We're gonna start with a hat, we have construction paper, our handy dandy glue gun, candy, spray paint, twine. This stuff is called craft cast paper and it's a little easier to work with than paper mache, and I'm gonna show you how.

Okay.

For this great guy, we use what's called a punching bag balloon, but for the purposes of demonstration, we're gonna use a regular balloon. This is a little bit stronger and bigger.

Okay.

All right. So, we're gonna start here.

We've blown up the balloon.

Blown up the balloon. We have cut the craft cast paper into little squares,

Okay.

and, oh my gosh, I should've put an apron on Rosanna but, okay. And you're just gonna like apply it like this.

Oh.

It's very easy.

Okay.

I did this with my kids and they love this project.

Love that, right? Yeah.

So, you're gonna do this and the entire-- until you get the entire balloon covered. All right, so--

Until it looks like this.

And when we're done there, we're gonna have this guy. It's gonna look like this, this is the first layer of the craft cast paper.

Beautiful.

What you're going to do is let this dry for about a half a day. Then, we need to attach the twine and I'm gonna have you come around to this side.

Okay.

Okay. We ultimately want the guy to look like that with a twine attached and the way we're gonna get there is, we're going to take our twine right here and you're gonna cut based on you know, where you want your piñata to hang.

Okay.

I'm gonna have you hold the twine and I'm gonna show you how to attach it.

Which way? Just hold it like this?

You hold it up here.

Okay.

Hold this up here.

Okay.

I'm not that tall, Rene.

I know you're not the tall.

But I will hold it for you.

Can we get a ladder? Can we get a ladder?

I will hold it. My arm is not long enough, Rene.

All right. So, here's what we're gonna do. You attach it to this side,

Yeah.

and this side with just your tape. Then, we're going to apply an entire second layer of the craft cast paper--

Oh, okay.

over this guy, all right, over the tape and over this entire thing. You let him dry again for how long?

Half a day.

Half a day. Oh, I love it, I love it, I love it.

This is like days of-- are you kidding? Days of working on this thing.

You are totally paying attention.

Okay.

So, we're gonna let him dry for half a day.

Okay.

And I'm gonna just stick him down here for right now.

Let's do that.

All right. When he's done, we're gonna take him outside with our spray paint 'cause you want to spray paint outside, you don't do that inside.

Exactly.

You wanna be at some place well ventilated and you're gonna spray paint this whole thing.

Okay.

You're gonna let it dry for a couple of hours,

Right.

because this makes it a little tiny bit soggy. When you are done with the spray paint,

Yeah.

he looks like this.

Cool.

Then you're going to cut a little whole in the top.

Yeah.

And then we do the really fun thing.

Then you start stuffing, I was wondering.

Now, now, when you open this up, you need to pop your balloon. Okay? So, you're gonna pop your balloon,

Oh.

the balloon stays in there, then you start shoving the candy in.

Now I get it.

Get it? Get it? Okay.

I was wondering. I was like, I think Rene forgot the candy.

No. No, never, never.

Okay.

How could I forgot-- I have a biggest [unknown].

So we-- okay.

So, then you cover this back up when he's all full. And when we would just like tape him up, put a piece of tape over the top of him.

Which of course I know you have at home. Look at her, she blinked when I pointed the glue gun at her. You're gonna apply just this one little dollop like that and you got--

When do we get to break the piñata?

Okay, see, see, here you go. And then you're gonna add--

Greg wants to come back for the piñata.

And there you go. All right.

All right.

You put him on, he's all set, we put a little hat on the-- look at this, would you look at this?

Oh, I'm so scared.

He's getting ready to do his--

He's fencing.

Let's see your A-Rod, Greg. Let's see your A-Rod.

Man, are you ready for me?

All right. So, here, okay.

Oh my gosh.

And this is-- no. Watch what you're doing.

You ride, oh no.

Just tell me what to destroy.

Okay. The piñata.

Okay.

First of all, take the mask off.

No.

That belongs to the fencing segment.

All right. So here--

It's for protection in case of, you know, debris shattering. This one?

So, here-- this is the guy. So give it a good-- let me get out of the way please.

Yeah, or both of us. Give it a good whack.

Give it a good whack.

This one right here?

That's the guy. Go for it.

This is what happens after. Oh.

Oh my gosh. All right.

Goodness.

After day--

Yeah, uh-huh.

Are you kidding me?

Yeah.

I took that everything last night I told you. All right, here we go.

Whoa!

Candy.

And there you go. He actually-- look at-- look what's on the inside. All the--

What do you--

There's candy and there's sparkles in there and everything.

There's confetti and there candy but really--

Who put this gum ball?

This is a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun for your kids to do and it's an easy project, make sure you wear gloves and clothes that you don't mind getting dirty.

All that, all that--

Rene Syler, that seems like a lot of fun.

Greg,

Milky way next time.

you are very good.

Thank you.

You are very good.

All right. He's warming up for the fencing, Rene. Standby. All right. For a link to more of Woman's Day's class ideas, please log on to our website, myfoxny.com, click on the Good Day tab.

Happy New Year.

Why didn't I know you're gonna say that? Coming up on Good Day New York, we're gonna learn the art of fencing from the US Olympic champion, Tim Morehouse. Tim, I'm gonna need your help because he's driving me crazy this morning.

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